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Microbiological Phenomena > Microbiota > Periphyton
... > Environment and Public Health > Environment > Ecosystem > Biodiversity > Biota > Microbiota > Periphyton
... > Biological Phenomena > Ecological and Environmental Phenomena > Environment > Ecosystem > Biodiversity > Biota > Microbiota > Periphyton
Organism Forms > Aquatic Organisms > Periphyton
Geographic Locations > Oceans and Seas > Aquatic Organisms > Periphyton
Physical Phenomena > Geological Phenomena > Oceans and Seas > Aquatic Organisms > Periphyton
... > Environment and Public Health > Environment > Saline Waters > Seawater > Oceans and Seas > Aquatic Organisms > Periphyton
... > Biological Phenomena > Ecological and Environmental Phenomena > Environment > Saline Waters > Seawater > Oceans and Seas > Aquatic Organisms > Periphyton

Preferred term

Periphyton  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Scope note

  • A complex mixture of organisms (algae, cyanobacteria, heterotrophic microbes, detritus, etc.) clinging on the surfaces of plants and other objects projecting from the bottom sediments of aquatic ecosystems.

History note

  • 2018

In other languages

  • perifyton

    Finnish

  • päällyskasvusto
  • päällyskasvusto vesiekosysteemeissä
  • Perifyton

    Swedish

  • Påväxt

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D000074284

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